Hello all, Apologies for not updating the blog for a while but the past week or so has flown by!! We can't believe we're leaving China tomorrow and are quite sad to say goodbye. China is one place where we definately want to visit again - there's so much to do! Since the incident in Nanjing, we have visited Xi'an and are currently in Chengdu, staying with my university friend Jeff (or Chinese name, Hai Long). It was a relief to arrive in Xi'an as we had to end...

Hello everyone  This is just a quick, and probably unexpected, message regarding something that happened to us last night. Firstly, we want you to know that we are safe and please don't worry more than necessary: the whole incident is over and we just want to draw a line under it. We were debating whether it would be a good idea to do this blog entry or whether we should keep it to ourselves. However, I personally want to avoid having to go over the events ...

Hi, I'm finally writing my (Chris'!) first entry from China! China is so much different than India, in some ways easier & in others much harder. Generally it is much cleaner than India (the lack of cows in the street are probably responsible for that!), but the pollution in the sky is terrible. Both in Shanghai & where we are now-Nanjing, there is a kind of hazey mist which hangs over the city constantly. The language we are struggling with loads, especi...

Greetings from Shanghai! Apologies (to those who may have worrried, parents....) for not writing for a while: time has flown by since the end of our India trip. Well, we are currently in Shanghai and not really doing much today since it's raining, so we have plenty of time to update from where we left off.... Our last few days in India were spent in Mumbai, the most cosmopolitan city in India. It was such a relief to be here with time to ourselves, having spent...

Hi, its Chris this time! Hope you are all well at home. Thisis going to be a very short blog entry since I have just written a massive one & deleted it by mistake-and am too annoyed to write it out again! Anyway were in Colaba, Mumbai at the moment, and are enjoying it-feels good to be doing stuff on our own again without being driven around everywhere & basically having our days dictated. I will write a proper entry in a few days once we are all sorted...